Family saved from motorway car inferno after stopping for sausage rolls at service station

A FAMILY were saved from a motorway car blaze because of their craving for a sausage roll snack.
The Gracie family were tucking into the rolls in a service station car park when smoke began to pour from their Vauxhall Zafira’s air vents. The car was an inferno within seconds.
Dad Thomas, 50, said yesterday: “We could have been killed. If we had not stopped, we would have been on the motorway when it happened.”
Thomas and his family, from Paisley, were travelling home from a weekend break when they pulled in at the Southwaite services on the M6 in Cumbria for a snack.
He headed to Greggs to... read more

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